A Kufic Qur'an folio, Near East or...
A Kufic Qur'an folio, Near East or North Africa, 9th/10th century, a section from Qur'an II (sura al-baqara), Arabic manuscript on parchment, each side with 6ll. of elegant brown kufic script, red and green dot vocalisation, diacriticals marked with black strokes, gold rosette verse marker, within outer gold border, mounted, folio 28.5 x 18cm. Provenance: Private Collection, London formed in the 1970s
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A Kufic Qur'an folio, Near East or North Africa, 9th/10th century, a section from Qur'an II (sura al-baqara), Arabic manuscript on parchment, each side with 6ll. of elegant brown kufic script, red and green dot vocalisation, diacriticals marked with black strokes, gold rosette verse marker, within outer gold border, mounted, folio 28.5 x 18cm. Provenance: Private Collection, London formed in the 1970s